03 December 2019

Wonder club goes two ranks lower

In a surprise of many football fans, last year at a European Cup competition one club from Sweden has achieved unbelievable results. Nowadays that same team is facing many difficulties.
Because of these financial problems, Ostersunds is going to be moved into third tier league in the country (which is division 1), unless it gathers enormous 15 million Swedish krona (around / surpassing 1.4 million euros) until the end of 2019. Out of this number, 1.4 million Swedish krona are taxes, and the rest are for various creditors. They can not get a licence to compete into the first league, but the deadline has been extended until 10 December if the club decided to appeal over the decision. Now the team is urgently looking for new sponsors and donations from spectators and companies.
As every individual is saying 'I am not guilty' so did the ex-president Daniel Kindberg, who last month was convicted and went in prison for money laundering. The verdict was that with the help of two other people and three companies pumped into the team illegal money between 2013 and 2017. Under his guidance, he took the club while it was in fourth (amateur) division in 2011, at 2016 the team has entered into the top division (Allsvenskan), 2016-17 season won the Cup, whilst one year later (2017-18) they reached the knock-out stage of Europa league.

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